Screenland (Nov 1928-Apr 1929)

SCREENLAND 97 This current strikes on the loud speaker. This sound is amplified again, just like the brunette's voice was in the first process, and then it bursts forth out into the theatre — to delight your ears and mine. That is the Photophone method. Of course we've left out a lot of tricks and gadgets, but you get the idea nevertheless. The Movietone is very much like the Photophone except for two main points: ( 1 ) The same camera records both the sound and the action. (2) Instead of registering on the film in zigs and zags, the sound registers like tiny lines, one over the other, shaded from light gray to heaviest black. The Vitaphone is something else again. For the sound by the Vitaphone method is cut on a wax record — somewhat similar to a phonograph record. But this disc is run at the same speed as the moving picture action camera so that they are both synchronized and can't get out of step. There you are. You have the three methods — all as clearly presented as Eiiv stein's Theory of Relativity — whatever that is. And now, class is dismissed, but before you go I want to say that it looks like the Ass with the Golden Ears is here to stay. Whether we like it or whether we don't, it is interesting to recall something that DeQuincey tells us about the Ass in its wild state. A wild Ass is one of the few ani' mals which won't run from its enemies. This talking picture has many enemies — mechanical enemies of reproduction. But I daresay, like the wild Ass, the talking picture will plant its feet firmly in the ground and remain to fight its way to perfection where it will ultimately beautify and amuse the world. The other night I heard a sound record of John Charles Thomas, singing a passage from the opera Pagliacci. He sang it magnificently. And as I live, when I closed my eyes, I could not tell whether it was Thomas in the flesh or a mechanical reproduction. And so I thought back to what it would have meant to me as a child, loving music so terribly and yet so far removed from every artistic center that the only music I ever heard was once when Creatore and his band passed through our little town and stopped between trains to give a concert. It was the highlight of my whole childhood. I was transported to heaven. But today, tomorrow, whole operas and symphonies will be brought to the smallest movie house, in the smallest village. Not only will our little brothers and sisters throughout the country hear transcendent music but they will actually see the finest living singers and actors before their eyes. To me, that seems the greatest romance of the twentieth century. And that will surely be brought about by the stolid Ass with the Golden Ears. Screenland for February offers a contest to interest and amuse everybody. It's unique — original. 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